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This includes numerous worksheets of guided reading questions to help students during remote learning. It has various assignments based on reading strategies to strengthen their interest in Ann Jaramillo's La Linea. These are assignments with questioning strategies, making connections, mind maps, creative writing activities, close reading, gathering evidence, making inferences, predictions, and drawing their own conclusions about the American Dream. This has been used with ELL students and non-

This packet includes analysis activities for Hitchcock's classic films Vertigo and Psycho. There are close viewing guides for both films and detailed directions for written assignments in order to closely analyze these complex films. For Psycho, students look at irony, censorship, tension and make an argument as to whether the film is an example of the male gaze in film theory. For Vertigo, students will consider patterns of power and have multiple questions for extended written responses. A

This A Raisin in the Sun packet includes pre-reading activities, vocabulary, active reading guides, character charts, symbol tracking, creative assignments, argumentative essays, and newspaper articles for further historical context. This can be used inside classrooms or for distance learning activities. It scaffolds a close reading of the text while also engaging students in a thoughtful examination of the continued legacy of housing segregation in the United States.

Students will closely read the pivotal fight scene between Tybalt, Mercutio and Romeo. They will work together to shorten the scene into 15 lines or less without changing any of Shealespeare's words. Their job is to pick the most important lines from the scene. They will then act out the shortened fight scene in front of the class.

This is a fun activity for all grade levels and any text that your students are reading! Students can create 4 Snapchat stories of the characters of their choice to demonstrate characterization, motivation and hidden thoughts. Students even explain who can see the story and why they may have posted it. This handout can be used as a fun creative activity for any text!

These various activities and worksheets give students the ability to analyze Tennessee Williams's critique of his societal expectations in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Students will examine expectations of family, wealth, race, and gender through close readings of the text with strong evidence to back up their conclusions. It also includes a vocabulary bundle with activities, homework and a final quote analysis test on the play. As a bonus, it includes a small final writing assignment in which studen

This test has students illustrate their deeper understanding of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. The test starts with ten simple questions about characters before students have to do a closer analysis of significant quotes from the entire novel. Students must determine who said the quote, in what context and be able to explain the significance of the quote to the entire context of the novel. There is a rubric included in the test to analyze student explanations and if they were able to addres

This is a 24 question multiple-choice reading quiz for the entire book. It includes general reading questions and significant quotes from the entire novel. This can be used to monitor students' close reading of the text. There is an answer key on the last page of the quiz/test. This has been used for high school students after reading the text independently over a summer, winter, or spring break.

This includes various quick 5 question reading checks for Antigone up to page 35. These have been used as 5 question 5 minute timed reading checks for student comprehension. Each page includes the same 5 questions to be cut up into three different handouts for the reading check. The questions can also be used for general guided reading questions too. These reading checks have been used with IB/MYP high school classes.

This includes three different options for student led discussions. You can choose to use them all for various times during the course of reading Ta-Nehisi Coates' brilliant Between the World and Me. The last option is a focused partnered discussion and share for smaller discussions instead of a whole class discussion. These sheets have been used for incredibly successful discussions at the beginning of the reading of the text for students to bring in their own questions or confusions about thei

This includes 15 notes on vocab words in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, two creative vocabulary practice activities to practice the words, and a final quote analysis and vocab test. Vocab notes have examples, but can be used as a working document to add more examples as a class. The other assignments can be given as in class activities or homework to provide more vocab practice. One activity gives visual representation of words as it relates to the play. The other activity illustrates student reading c

This is a bundle of activities to analyze Martin Espada's "Heart of Hunger" and "Public School 190, Brooklyn 1963". This includes a purposeful reading of Espada's focus as a poet that helps students examine a poet's message. There are analysis activities with guided questions, creative drawing and writing assignments. All activities and assignments have been used in IB/MYP high school classrooms. Includes both poems and activities for distance learning too!

This activity allows students to engage with new or past vocab words and apply them to various characters they construct. They will create a super hero, villain and sidekick from their words and explain their powers based on the word's definition. There are clear directions and examples for the characters to guide students in their own creative learning. This can be used as homework or a lesson plan for a day. Good addition to distance learning activities.

This includes the Martin Espada's great poem about public school inequities and racism during the 1960's. There are guided questions, helpful analysis tools on a worksheet with the poem, and a guided reading of a speech Espada gave that will help students gain a stronger insight into the purpose of poetry. The speech helps students engage in the purpose of poetry as a means of social change and enhances their critical reading skills. There are also quick intro questions to start class discussion

A graphic organizer for groups to gather evidence from Coates's Between the World and Me to draw conclusions as to what his message is through the repetition of the body. On the second page, there's a handout for another activity to share theme statements developed from the evidence and used for a gallery walk around the room.

Is Juliet an independent woman? Or is she easily controlled by men? Students will use the graphic organizer to include direct evidence from the play, a translation of the text into their own words and an explanation of their evidence as it supports their argument about Juliet. Students can either use this as an independent class assignment, and they can also use this as a preparation for a fully class debate.

This worksheet helps guide students through Act Two of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. They include questions from the text, personal reactions, significant quotes with justification and consider if characters deserve the reader's sympathy. This can be given at the beginning of Act Two or in the middle when students finish the reading on their own time.

This graphic organizer asks students to synthesize what is causing Brick to remain mentally trapped and unable to admit the truth to himself and others. Students will gather evidence from throughout the entire play from various characters to consider what is causing Brick to stay trapped in his marriage and alcoholism. Students will consider societal factors and family expectations to draw their conclusions.

Students can use this handout to expand their vocabularies and apply new words in order to prepare for vocab tests or cement the word into their memory. This fun handout allows students to visualize words into characters and think through definitions, synonyms, and opposing definitions of other words. This has been used as a class activity or homework. It also works well for distance learning activities to keep students on top of vocab acquisition for the SATs.